I just noticed I missed a new firmware for U6 released on... September 17th, 2012.... that is to say 2 years after the product release and previous firmware 1.09, whaouh!
That's quite unusual for Samsung who generally drops the firmware support after 1 year or so.

That was the good news. The bad news is that without any surprise this firmware is not interesting. At least, Samsung give us a funny official changelog:

Quote:

- When connect to PC, the phone charging scheme has been improved.

The U6 is a phone now
Well, I don't know what was the problem it is supposed to fix but I personally never experienced any issue dealing with PC connection and charging with firmware 1.09. If it was an obvious and serious issue, I assume it would have been noticed and fixed earlier?

Oh and of course this firmware doesn't fix the bugs I reported to R&D in 2011 such as FLAC tags issues etc. At the time, they told me they could not fix them and release a new firmware because the 3rd party contract had expired. But of course in 2012 they can release a new firmware....
That's why we like Samsung. Nothing makes sense in this company

How to upgrade firmware: Download the firmware, extract the archive, put the YP-U6.ROM file at the root of your player (the root is where all main folders are: music, video, system, pictures etc...), disconnect the player. Turn it on, it will automatically upgrade the firmware. You can check the firmware version in settings>system>about.